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I BEWSHER Direct Action Plunger Pump. Let Our Gold Dredging Machines Work For You. There is hut one perfect apparatus to he used when dredging, whether for gold or in deepening waterways, cutting channels, ditches or making nils. The Bewsher direct action plunger pump is the only machine powerful enough to lift gold through its suction pump, and the only plunger pump in the world that successfully pumps gold, sand, gravel, botll ders and any kind of granular material through its chambers without injury or wear to its working parts. Our 8-inch gold dredging pump has a capacity of 3 cubic yards of solid matter per minute, moving the same from river bottom to sluice boxes at ft cent per cubic yard. If you have not seen this pump in operation you should attend our public exhibitions. You will be permitted to make your own tests. If you are interested in sub-aqueous gold mining Of in dredging operations for any other purpose it will pay you to investigate this. Call at this office or write for prospectus. Sh res now selling at 50 cents. You may invest any amount. - GENERAL CONSTRUCTION CO. 1510 SECOND AVF... THE RANCH. PHONE JAMES 4601. SEATTLE, WASH.